And here we see another case of the industry attempting to lock down a format (DVD), and the non-Western countries rejecting it due to that fact. It would be nice if they'd learn something from this. Now that DRM is beginning to infiltrate computing (I recall reading about the latest AMD CPUs containing DRM-enabled "features" already), I wonder how long it will be before China gets annoyed about that and does something to counteract it. I mean, DVD encryption (CSS) was insecure, and even that much got rejected.

Before long, "Made in China" may be a symbol of freedom, at least for hardware. Wouldn't that be ironic?

Aren't vp5 and vp6 based on mpeg4? I thought the point of this new dvd standard was to remove reliance on western patents.

I thought that vp4, vp5 and vp6 were based on vp3. The source code for VP3 was released a year or two ago and is the basis for the Ogg Theora video codec.

As for DVD encryption, the reason why the encryption that DVDs used was so lame was because the US government restricted export of strong encryption from the US. The US government has since changed this policy, additionally china never had laws like this (AFAIK) so it wouldn't have been a problem for them anyways. If they do choose to use DRM, then it will likely be several orders of magnatude more difficult to crack than the DVD encryption.

The US only prohibit export of strong cryptography. China prohibits export, import and even usage ("domestic controls")! :

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...domestic crypto manufacture and use is severely restricted. Officially designated manufacturers must obtain aproval from the State Encryption Management Commission for the type and model (including key length) of their crypto products. Organisations and individuals may not distribute encryption products produced abroad. People may only use encryption products approved by the Commission, and they may not use commercial encryption products developed by themselves or produced abroad.

From this point of view, Brazil ist god

This post has been edited by rjamorim: Nov 22 2003, 22:06

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... they did if they read our specs, which contains a reply gain field ( that is currently unused BTW ) ... we contacted them almost 5 months ago. We received a nice email from them that they will look at matroska for their new EVD standard, but got no news since then ....